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york cornered the suspected gunman accused of going on a shooting rampage that left four people dead. cpac kicks off. some of those speaking: senator marco rubio and senator rand paul. >> talk about long distance, it defender scoring a game-winning goal from the opposite of the field with only minutes left in that game. the player saw the goalie out of position and let it fly. next the bad: third grade students in virginia say they were forced to take a lie detector test african did african -- test african did i went missing in their classroom. parents are calling for her to be fired now. finally the ugly, 20 seconds is how long it took two british brothers to steal a bmw.

they have since been caught. >> that's what happens to the brothers when they try to steal a car. >> crime does not pay. videotapes are everywhere. have a great day folks. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning. it is thursday, march 14. i'm alisyn camerota in for gretchen carlson. meet the new holy father. pope francis will speak today. what made him the chosen one? we're live from the vatican. >>steve: the lights are out mostly. the white house closed. but traffic is still moving, and the president just threw the secret service under the bus. >> i have to say this was not a decision that went up to the white house. but what the secret service explained to us was that they're going to have to furlough some folks. >>steve: really? will the president cut back on travel?

golf stuff to keep those secret service members from layoffs? the answer is straight ahead on this thursday. >>brian: from anchors to overnight action stars. look at that. those two armed and dangerous. we've got your back martha maccallum. "fox & friends" starts as soon as they find the assailant. >>steve: who needs kevlar when you've got a cute pink top? >>alisyn: as you can see, i inspire fear in the hearts of lots of viewers. >>steve: this was like a video game. >>alisyn: first we blew up that car but we had to because there was a villain

in it. if you stay tuned for 45 minutes, you can see how we went to a stunt camp. we were trained to be action heroes. obviously laying with guns is very dangerous. we were with the most conscientious safety experts but still something went a little wrong. >>brian: it isn't the pink top you chose to wear as opposed to the black camouflage? >>steve: we've got a busy morning. >>alisyn: francis starting his first day as pontiff. later today he'll meet with the old pope. sounds strange. former pope and then celebrate mass with the cardinals. father john joins us live from rome. father john, did you know this would be the chosen one? >> first of all, i can't believe you just called the pope old. the former pope old.

>>brian: what is she thinking, father john? would you forgive her? >> that's exactly what pope francis said to the cardinals -- i'm being serious now -- what pope francis said to the cardinals after they elected him. he said, "my dear brothers, i will ask god to forgive you for having elected me." it's a huge responsibility, and he knows it and he feels that pressure, i'm sure. >>steve: we should point out that benedict, now known as pope emeritus. apparently the very first phone call that the new pope francis -- and don't add the roman numeral yet -- made was to benedict? right? >> that's right. he did call and ask for his blessings, his prayers. he's also going to go visit him later on today it seems. he also escaped from the vatican early unofficially and went to a church not far from here called saint mary major and spent a

half-hour in prayer before the altar, asking the lord for blessing upon his pontifficate and asking blessings for the lord mother mary. >>brian: you tweeted us yesterday before you knew. keep one eye on cardinal jorge mario bergoglio as a compromise candidate. very good jesuit. what do you mean by jesuit? >> my reasoning was this. there were three candidates put out as thefront-runners. you had sherer from brazil, you had scola. after three ballots came up negative, i assumed they were going to look to somebody else. the reason why bergoglio was not getting a lot of traction was because he was 76. the assumption was we need

somebody younger. i knew from listening other cardinals talk was they didn't care so much about the age. they wanted someone who could fix the dysfunction in the vatican. he's an outsider, extreme simplicity. they thought he could get the job done. >>brian: i heard ten days before the conclave started, that's when he began to impress some of the other cardinals. by the way, that's the first time you quoted tom petty in a very long time. >>alisyn: in a very, very long time. >> i didn't even know he said it quite honestly. >>brian: what exactly did he do to win everybody over, have you heard? >> i saw what he did. it was an amazing thing, brian. he came up to the balcony. he put his hand down. and before giving them his blessing, he asked the people. over 100,000 people in the square waiting in the rain

for hours, to give him their blessing, to pray over him, so to speak. it was a way of saying, folks, any sort of clerical careerism where you think you're better than the next is done with. it's over. it's about service. i think by choosing francis, a jesuit picking the name francis, francis of assisi, what he's saying is there's going to be major reform, going to come from spirituality 101 and it's docility to the holy spirit. >>steve: the first pontiff from the americas. jonathan morris, thank you for joining us live from vatican city where we're going to have live reports all day because we have a new pope. >>alisyn: we have a fox news alert. a police standoff is underway at this hour in the town of mohawk in upstate new york. moments ago loud bangs were heard near an abandoned

building. an armed man accused of going on a deadly shooting spree inside. >> it's scary. this is a small town. this stuff shouldn't happen around here. >> he's basically turned the area into a ghost town. >>alisyn: it is believed the suspect, a 64-year-old, set fire to his apartment and then drove to two businesses and shot four people dead. six months after the attacks in benghazi that left four americans dead, president obama announces a replacement for ambassador chris stevens. her name is debra jones. she is currently a scholar at the middle east institute in washington. should the work requirement for welfare be waived? the house says no. lawmakers passed a bill preventing the obama administration from waiving the work requirement. last summer the obama administration said it would grant waivers to some

of the rules but not one state applied. is that an i.e.d. in your pocket? the t.s.a. wouldn't know. agents at newark airport completely outmatched by an undercover fed who stuck an i.e.d. in his pants and slipped past two security check points. even worse, the t.s.a. excuse now, a member of the t.s.a. blog team says it's just too darned hard for agents to find bombs. >>steve: that says it all. >>alisyn: they're busy frisking grandmothers. >>steve: every one of them. >>brian: why can't you straighten this out? it's right by your house. can you just go in there -- >>steve: every time we go through, we pretty much get strip searched. they figure my wife is clearly a terrorist. the top story, the fact that we have a new pope in addition to a pope emeritus. it was interesting, when the news came out, the president of the united states was in front of house republicans, and he said -- the president said

apparently there's white smoke over the vatican. and congressman billy long from missouri said does that mean the white house is open for tours? and the president said no, but the vatican is. what's happened now with the white house tours is washington, d.c., particularly the executive pwrafrpbl, -- branch is in blame game mode because this is a sequester choice they made that has blown up in their face. we have two sound bites. you're going to hear the president of the united states blame the secret service. then you're going to hear jay carney blame the white house itself. these guys got to get on the same page. here they are. >> i have to say this was not a decision that went up to the white house. but what the secret service explained to us was that they're going to have to furlough some folks. what furloughs mean is that people lose a day of work and a day of pay. and the question for them is how deeply do they have to furlough their staff? and is it worth it to make

sure that we've got white house tours? >> we had to cancel the tours. it's our job to cancel the tours. they cannot cancel them because this is not a tour of the secret service building. it is a tour of the white house and the grounds. we run the tours and the invitations and that process. the white house canceled the tours, confronted with the choice made by the secret service which we concur with, but it is certainly their choice because it's their budget. that it was the right thing to do not to add further furloughs to the future for secret service agents, the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect senior officials in our government. and that the result would be cutbacks in staffing, hours in an area like tours which is so labor intensive. >>brian: think about this. they did this as symbolism to show the sequester hurts and it's going to hurt congressmen and other

people and constituents who come to washington. these tours are often set up by fellow congressmen and congress women. this has been a disaster, has been unexplainable. of all the issues we have in this country, talking about white house tours that don't even add up to anything. meanwhile the president goes up to the house yesterday. he wants to have a conversation about what's happening with the budget. and he sits there talking about the tours. chairwoman candice miller asked him what's the deal with the tours? why didn't you stop with the christmas party or the congressional picnic? the president says it was the secret service who did this. everyone groaned in disbelief and the president came out and goes you have -- don't be disrespectful. how unbelievable is this. >>alisyn: what a misfire. the idea they didn't think there would be pushback from the american public when schoolkids, tours of the white house -- the people's house -- was canceled. obviously everybody was saying couldn't you have trimmed something else. the president's argument is the secret service gave them the choice. we would have to furlough our workers or cancel the

tours. instead of putting people out of work for a day, a week, he said cancel the tours. obviously there are other things in the white house budget that could be cut. lots of people have raised their hand like you are, steve, like say the president's travel. >>steve: here's jonathan carl asking about presidential travel. yesterday. >> the secret service told us the tours cost $74,000 a week. how much is it going to cost for the president to travel later this week to illinois? >> the president is president of the united states, and he's elected to represent all the people, and he travels around the country appropriately. i don't have a figure on the cost of presidential travel. obviously something, as every president deals with because of significant and staff, a significant undertaking. the president has to travel around the country. he has to travel around the world. that is part of his job. >> how much does it cost for him to go and play golf? >> john, again, you're trivializing an impact here. people will lose their

jobs. three-quarters of a million people will lose their jobs. >>brian: henry says someone asked a tough question. he could have called in sick yesterday for the first time in two years. >>steve: the interesting thing is so far nobody has been laid off in the secret service. the president mentioned there could be furloughs. >>brian: they would keep it a secret. >>steve: because they are the secret service? nobody has lost their jobs yet. but they stopped tours last week. what's up with that? >>alisyn: meanwhile, terrorists storm the cockpits of plane on 9/11 so why is wire line about to make it easier for access to the pilot's cabin? the wife of a pilot who died that day is outraged and will be here to explain that. >>brian: look at this. the a team goes from anchors to action stars overnight. they just made a movie. they asked to borrow my car. i'll never do that again. >>steve: i hope it was a [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego.

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>>alisyn: you've heard about the t.s.a.'s new policy to allow small knives on planes. there is another safety issue many people don't know about. secondary barrier doors were installed on some planes after 9/11 to protect pilots in the cockpits. but now united airlines is paying boeing to remove those barrier doors so more first-class seats can be built. this decision is angering many people, including our next guest, ellen sarasini. her late husband victor was captain of united airlines flight 175 taken over by terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into the south tower of the world trade center. ellen, good morning. >> good morning, alisyn. >>alisyn: what do you think about this decision by united to try to remove that second barrier door?

>> i think it's outrageous. united ordered these boeing 787's to have a secondary barrier. after the merger, they decided they were going to pay boeing extra to remove the barriers. i think it's absurd. we need this protection in order to not have a breach of the cockpits. >>alisyn: you think had your husband had that secondary barrier door on united flight 175 that things could have been different? >> absolutely. could have been different for 2,973 people. the reason why we had september 11 was because the cockpit was breached and the secondary barriers are a proven method of securing the cockpits. >>alisyn: here's what united airlines says about this decision in a statement. flight security has various components with secondary barriers being just one. we use in different combinations. the security matrix can vary. while we don't discuss details of which security measures are used, we are thorough in carrying out

our security responsibilities for every flight. in other words they are saying this won't affect security. they have a matrix in place that should protect pilots. what is your response? >> we know the matrix and we know what happens. there are people that get through certain parts of security. that's why there are so many levels of security. the secondary barrier is the last line of defense before you can get to the cockpit. so there's no reason to take any one of the components and not include them. and we have to have a mandate on that. >>alisyn: this week you sent a letter to president obama. what did you say? >> i told him of the problem. i explained to him all the issues, the limitations of all the other security issues that they have in place. and i asked to have a meeting with him and hopefulfully he can help us and get this mandate through quickly. >>alisyn: have you gotten response from the white house or the f.a.a. or united yet? >> not from the white house. they just got the letter this week.

we haven't heard from them yet. the f.a.a., the t.s.a., the flight attendants, the union all are behind secondary barriers. we've had a good response from congressmen and senators that we've been seeing as well. and united airlines has not answered my question. i did write a letter, an associate wrote back never answering the reason why they got rid of secondary barriers. i wrote another letter specifically to everry smi -- specifically to jeffrey smizack. i asked him to answer h*fpls and i -- to answer himself and i have not received it. it's been over a month. >>alisyn: thanks for sharing. a serious scare for a victoria's secret angel. why she was rushed to the hospital. then spring-summer. a sequester canceled this student's plans to tour the

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them. the model says she is in a lot of pain but will be okay. we'll follow that story. >>alisyn: imagine having your spring break canceled by the sequester. for people who planned to tour the white house in the coming weeks, that's still the case despite the president telling abc news that he is now open to accommodating some school groups. >>steve: we have a high school student from wichita, kansas, who is looking forward to touring the white house on tuesday. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me on. >>steve: i understand you blame the president of the united states. you say he's being petty in closing white house tours. >> yes, sir. even though he doesn't blame himself, i think the blame relies on him. it seems he's a president who doesn't want to take responsibility for anything. first he tkpwhraeupls benghazi and the secret on white house tours. what happens to the buck stops here.

>>alisyn: you were supposed to go to the white house this coming tuesday. what were you looking forward to about the trip? >> the most exciting part is obviously the white house and being able to walk down the halls of so many great leaders and the decisions that affected our lives were made in those hallways. i think it would have been an incredible experience to experience history firsthand. >>steve: dalton, we're looking at an image of you and classmates standing in front of the people's house. i understand instead of you think instead of closing the gates to the people's house they should leave the white house open and other areas should be cut instead. >> there are plenty of areas including caligraphers or the white house dog walker which makes $100,000 a year. >>alisyn: that's a lot of doggy dough. if the president is listening, if the white house is listening, what do you want them to know about student tours or maybe all public tours?

>> tours are inspiring to youth to be able to have that feeling just walking through history. and i think it's a very educational experience for many students. even if we can't go, i hope he opens it up in the next coming weeks so more kids across america can experience it. >>steve: dalton, it sounds like you know a lot about what's going on in the world. what do you want to be when you grow up? >> i don't know. i'm looking down the business road right now but wherever god calls me i'm willing to go. >>steve: if they open the tours, i know you'll be first in line along with your school group. dalton, thank you investment enjoy your -- thank you very much. enjoy your tour of the capitol. >>alisyn: radiation could cause another deadly problem. the warning you need to hear about that next. >>steve: start your tivo. your ticket to the premier of the ali adventure.

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>>peter: the 115 cardinals are going to stay in rome and try to find a replacement for joy bayhar on "the view." >>alisyn: it took only two days for the 115 cardinals to make a decision on electing cardinal bergoglio now known worldwide as pope francis. >>brian: here with us to offer thoughts is carl anderson from the knights of columbus. he is live in rome. carl, what do you take from this decision? >> this is another marvelous example of what's happened so often in history in the catholic church. continuity in change, as if the cardinal electors were reading writings on charity when they voted for our new pope francis. 35 years ago the conclave gave us a new pope from

poland, and he changed europe. today the future of the church rests in so many ways on what happens in la particular america, the western hemisphere. and now the church has a new leader from latin america who is going to energize the whole hemisphere and renew the church there. so this is really a very exciting time for catholics. >>steve: it certainly is, and it's skpaoeugt that he -- exciting he is from the order of jesuits. he sound like a man of the people. i've been reading this morning about how after he came out on the loja and greeted everybody, he went back to that majestic room, and rather than sit down in a chair, which is tradition and all the cardinals would come and greet him, he stood face-to-face with them. he takes the bus and makes his own food and drives himself around. he sounds great. >> he is a man of the people. last night after being on

the balcony there, he went back with his fellow cardinals on the bus. he didn't take the limousine back. i think we're going to see a pope who is very pastoral, who loves people and is going to radiate that throughout the church. this is a pope who under-- >>alisyn: what we read in "the new york post" this morning is part of why he rose to become the pope is the other cardinals didn't think he really wanted it. >> well, he certainly was not spoken about as one of the leading contenders all week in rome. and i think really they understand that this is a pope who sees the church's mission as a mission of service, not as a position of privilege. we have somebody who is taking st. francis as a model, to rebuild the church as the lord said to st. francis many years ago, in a way with complicity,

charity, reaching out to everyone in need, especially the poor. >>steve: carl is with the knights of columbus. thank you very much, sir. >>brian: 25 minutes till the top of the hour. this was not supposed to happen. an acrobat falls to a safety net in front of a horrified audience. we're not going to show you the entire fall. it is too disturbing. the acrobat with cirque du soleil. he was rushed to the hospital with injuries including a broken back. the circuit in moscow said they never had anything like this happen. and the safety net was rigorously tested before being use. >>alisyn: they say they can't get a job because they don't have a job. new york city now the fourth place in the country banning employers from shunning out of york job

applicants. the big apple went further letting applicants sue for damages over being rejected. >>steve: if they don't have a job and they don't get a job, they can sue if they didn't get a job. >>alisyn: if discriminated against. >>steve: researchers say those treated with radiation are more likely to develop heart problems later in life. doctors say you should not panic. the chance of suffering a radiation-induced heart problem is, they say, very small. mr. kilmeade, you've got a lot of sports for us. >>brian: let's start with the nba. usually the regular season is a another. not now. the heat have kept their amazing winning streak alive. lebron james 27 points. the heat win again, this time over the 76ers. miami is the fourth team in nba history to win 20 straight games. should someone tell them the playoffs haven't started yet. they could be burning out.

the broncos signed one of the best wide receivers in football off the roster of the patriots. welker says goodbye tom brady, hello peyton manning, two years, $12 million. as ali says, how do you live on that? he loves the game. and reggie bush leaving south beach for motown. bush reportedly signing a four year $16 million deal to play with the lions. talk about dialing up long distance, this defender of the san francisco premier league -- of the south african scoring from the goal's position. final score 1-0. that would be the only goal of the game. not to be outdone, let's go american. long-range shot, seattle sourpbdz wins -- seattle

sounders win. they average 44,000 in seattle. coming up on kilmeade and friends from 6 to 9 a.m. on the radio app, stan henninger for the "wall street journal." and charles payne will do a simulcast on the fox business network all coming up. and i don't look like that any more. >>steve: we're doing a simulcast with janice dean weather machine. janice, we've had a couple of kind of mild days and now say it ain't so. it could be snow? >> as a meteorologist, i should probably embrace this weather, all types of weather. i am so done with winter. bring on spring which is apparently six days away according to the calendar. but we might have another winter storm to talk about early next week. let's go to the map. i'll show you where it's cold. 25 in minneapolis, 23 in chicago. 31 here in new york. 31 in atlanta where they have freeze warnings for

parts of northern and central georgia into south carolina. that's how cold it is as we have seen a prolonged period of time where it's been freezing. the good news is we don't have major systems to tell you about right now. we have light snow across the upper midwest and the eastern great lakes toward the ohio river valley and the northwest. highs still very chillily gross the northern tier of the country. look at phoenix. 93! that is where we should go today. they're breaking records. 93 today and tomorrow in phoenix, arizona. sunny outside. >>alisyn: let's do that. let's get on a plane right now. >> you and me ali, let's do it. >>alisyn: okay. >> can i just say i am a little jealous of the thelma and louise party with you. >>alisyn: it was pretty fun. i hope you'll tune in in about five minutes.

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before the fire is entirely out. it started when the tug pulling a barge hit a pipeline. the captain suffered serious burns. and mcdonald's trying to go healthy with a new option on the breakfast menu. the new egg white delight is a twist on their famous egg mcphufrpb. -- egg mcmuffin. it is 40 calories less than the egg mcmuffin. it hits menus nationwide later this month. something to look forward to. >>alisyn: it's very scary what's about to happen. being an anchor on "fox & friends" of course is a dream job. but let's face it, we all just sit on a sofa for a living. so we wondered what it was like to live a little dangerously. the two of us becoming double agents. >>brian: really? >> we headed to austin, texas, to the official

james bond training facility called the sun ranch. learning to become action heroes is tough. luckily we were under the careful supervision of hollywood effects specialist and stunt master steve wolf. >> you're going to shoot guns, climb, repel, you're going to blow up a car. basically you're going to become -- >> james bond. >> at the stunt ranch, he taught james bond. he also worked with tom cruise to help him make this look easy. but wolf soon realized we might be his biggest challenge yet. >> don't touch anything without checking with me. they could all hurt you. >> you're sure everything is attached? >> pretty sure. >> say a prayer for me, ali. >> i think i'll be okay.

>> on the ground. >> on the ground? >> yeah. crawl forward. good. crawling forward with your gun. >> wolf taught us that life-and-death situations require working together. after all, there's no "i" in team particularly when you're falling off a building. >> we're going to see if you can hold on when ali falls. >> i don't know if i can hang on anymore. >> you can, ali! >> don't fall! you're going to be okay. [screaming] >> most importantly, wolf taught safety first. >> the first rule of gun safety, all guns are always loaded. second rule of gun safety, never allow a gun to point at anything you don't want to destroy. the third rule is keep your finger off the trigger

until your sights are on the target. >> under wolf's watchful eye, we practiced. [gunshots fired] >> right back on target. good. nice shot. >> until it was time to put everything together and make movie magic. >> quiet on the set! [music playing] >> in a world filled with danger, two news anchor rise above the rest, fighting evil at every turn. looking danger straight in the eye. an explosive new action film. anchors away coming soon to a theater near you. >>brian: you broke a nail? >>alisyn: you saw that. i had a surface wound there. that was the most fun. >> we had a great time. obviously on a serious note, we produced this segment before what happened in newtown newtown, connecticut, and

it's hard to do a piece now on guns and ignore the gun-control debate. but these guys were the most conscientious safety experts at the stunt ranch. we were in good hands. >> it was all in good fun. we wanted to show you guys at home how movies are made. if you are in that situation, be safe. follow the news. >>brian: you know what i learned from that? you don't need the news business. should something happen, you would go right to your tv series. it's waiting for you. >>alisyn: we've got to perfect that thing on the ground. that's hard to do. the ground? the dirty part? >>steve: for people who are watching now, they're going i'd like to do that. is it pop? >>alisyn: absolutely, it's possible. the stunt ranch is open to the public. they train kids in science, engineering, explosive safety. i will tweet out the

website. >> the other girl in the piece, she was a mom. she wanted to learn gun safety and what it's like to make a hollywood movie. he said he trained all the bonds. he trained tom cruise. tom cruise was the hardest worker, very serious. the first one on the scene and the last to leave. >>alisyn: like us. >> that was good. we had so much fun. >>brian: good job in the pink camo. we hope to visit this package again. the people's house is closed. the obama administration calls the sequester a disaster. but if it's that bad, why are the feds still hiring? we're talking thousands of jobs. >>steve: who could forget this guy's lavish hot tub party on our dime? he's out at the g.s.a. but one of his buddies just got his job back. >>brian: and back pay. >>brian: and back pay. >>steve: that's right. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes?

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>>brian: it seems like president obama is using every opportunity to scare americans with disastrous cutbacks when sequestration takes full effect. >> border patrol agents will see hours reduced. f.b.i. agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays at airports across the country. >>brian: sound pretty bad; right? why did the government put

up want ads for hundreds of thousands of jobs? can you figure this out? we wheeled in judge napolitano who is at an undisclosed location. you're in washington, aren't you? how does this happen? how does the government at one point say it is a tragedy and at another point say we need people? >> the president at best doesn't understand the law. at worst it is misleading the american people. as we all know now, the sequester is not a cut. this is federal spending. without the sequester continuing to go up. this is federal spending with the sequester continuing to go up. the difference between this and this is 2%. instead of being able to hire 100 additional t.s.a. agents, the government can only hire 98. these 3,000 new jobs, some of them could be to replace people that left. but some also are new jobs. why? because the president has the power to move money around. he can't take money from justice and send it to defense. but he can take money from the army and send it to the

navy. he can send money from the g.s.a., the government services administration, which owns all these buildings in washington, and move it to some support staff. he can find ways to get the people to do the work that he needs, not withstanding his protest that he couldn't. >>brian: judge, in the sequestration legislation, it allows that flexibility? >> not in the sequestration legislation, brian. it's because we don't have a budget. even though federal law written by congress requires the congress to produce a budget by february 1 of each year, we don't have one. without a budget, the president can move funds around, and he must know that. >>brian: there is another topic. talking about the u.s. now is going to let spy agencies scour our finances, american finances. what does this mean? what's the objective? >> the objective is to let every spy agency in america -- we know of 16 of them, brian. this may be others -- look

at all financial information. every check you've ever cashed, every deposit you've ever made, to see if they can make any connection between the innocent, normal commercial activity of hundreds of millions of americans and the evil deeds of a few. this will be a gross violation of privacy. it's lawful because congress says it's lawful. but it is a profound violation of the right to privacy guaranteed by the fourth amendment. >>brian: you mean everyone is going to find out that you have an american express black card? >> everyone is going to find it out but i'm not worried because wherever i go i'm taking alisyn with me. i will never defy alisyn again. and i apologize for all those times i frustrated her. >>brian: judge andrew napolitano, thanks so much. alisyn, get to you in a second. see you soon, judge. straight ahead in two more hours of the show, can't remember what happened yesterday? we have a guy coming up with the best memory in america, and he's here to help you.

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>> alisyn: good morning, everyone. it's thursday, march 14. i'm alisyn camerota in for gretchen this morning. meet your new holy father. pope francis will say mass as the leader of the catholic church. so what made him the chosen one? we're live at the vatican. >> brian: all right. we're more than $62 trillion in debt and counting. but the president says not a crisis. >> we don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. in fact, for the next ten years, it's going to be in a sustainable place. >> brian: right. someone take stephanopoulos off the floor. denial, anyone? those comments raising more than a few eyebrows this morning of the we're live in washington. just trying to play along.

>> steve: then, who could forget this guy's lavish hot tub party on our dime? he's out at the tsa. but one of his buddies just got his job back and back pay. "fox & friends" hour two for a thursday starts now. >> alisyn: good morning, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. huge news yesterday. i was glued to my set while we were waiting. once we knew the white smoke had come out while we were waiting to find out which cardinal had been chosen. >> steve: if you were watching our segment, within a couple hours, it was spell binding. >> steve: there is one thing the

catholic church does, and brian and i were talking about his trip last year, nobody does ritual better. it was stunningly beautiful. >> brian: by the way, i feel so fortunate to have been there and get a real perspective on the history and where you can go one block and see ancient ruins from thousands of years ago. and the sistine chapel just refurbished. >> steve: as soon as the word went out that there was white smoke over the vatican and over the sistine chapel, word went out and over 100,000 people jammed into the square at saint peter's. >> alisyn: one of them was our own lauren green and she is live for us in rome with more. good morning, lauren. >> good morning. i want to show you a page of the italian papers plastered with the picture of pope francis. it says the pope of the poor. he indeed is a symbol and humble man. but he is a cardinal that very

few had on their list. he surprised the odds makers by becoming the first pope from latin america where 40% of the catholics live. this morning, though, he traveled to pray at saint mary major basilica. he told the crowd last night that he intended to entreat the madonna, quote, that she may watch over all of rome. last night after the white smoke cleared, the 76-year-old humble servant electrified the faithful appearing on the loja of the basilica in the simple white casssok, choosing not to done the red cape with white fur. cardinal timothy dolan talked about qualities pope francis brings to lead the 1.2 billion catholics. >> you want a man of god. you want a man of good pastoral governance. you want a man with a sense of the church universal. you want a good communicator and he fills those bills.

where he comes from is gravy. we got a lot of good gravy with a man coming from latin america. you talk about a booster shot for the church in the americas, this is going to be a real blessing. >> you know, pope francis' simplicity shows a new direction in the church. he cooks for himself. takes the bus, lives in an apartment, took care of a disabled fellow jesuit. goes to bed at 9 and wakes up at 4 a.m he is a different kind of leader for the catholic church. and speaking of his predecessor, word is that he will visit pope benedict at some point in the future, but we're not sure what day that will be. but he does want to confer with him. we do know he called him last night. guys? >> steve: that's nice. >> brian: that's a great resource, to have a pope benedict who has been through this entire process, it's been thousands of years. >> steve: and it's been great to

have lauren green. apparently after the ceremony yesterday, cardinal dolan was talking to some reporters. they said, what was it like in there? he said, it was very humbling and he said he was moved by the holy spirit. but he also asked, because he was inside the sistine chapel. did the smoke work this time? he said, we were in the sistine chapel and we saw them put the ballot noose a stove in the corner and we didn't know whether or not it came out white or black or gray as it did last time. >> brian: we have tv's in our elevators. i demanded it. i saw it as i was in there, black smoke was originally coming out. so i walked out thinking, okay. we continue. i walked downstairs and we had a pope. >> alisyn: right. >> steve: quite a trip in the elevator. >> alisyn: it is very suspenseful. let's get to the rest of your headlines and tell you what else happened overnight. firefighters are on the scene of a four alarm fire in coal city, illinois. this is a scene at a large

industrial building in a small community south of chicago. we do not know if there are any injuries or how this started. because of the size of the blaze, firefighters decided to just try to let it burn out for a little while. this developing story, stand-off underway in the town in upstate new york. this morning, loud bangs were heard near an abandoned building. inside an armed man accused of of going on a deadly shooting spree. it's believed the 64-year-old set fire to his apartment in mo hawk, then drove to two businesses and shot four people dead. >> it's scary. this is a small town. this stuff shouldn't happen around here. >> he basically turned the whole area into a ghost town because people aren't out like they usually are. >> alisyn: police are not commenting on a motive, but they did say that they are, quote, familiar with myers. after benghazi, president obama announced a replacement for

ambassador stevens. her name, deborah jones. she served in american embassies in kuwait, united emirates. this kitty academy teacher is behind bars accused of lacing her students' sipe cups with an over-the-counter sleep aid. police say someone saw her put soninex in the cups and later found evidence in her home. all the children in her class were one and two years old. the school claims no children actually drank the drugged drinks and she has since been fired. you'll be happy to know. those are your headlines. >> steve: great. meanwhile, in politics, president obama playing the game when it comes to sequestration. first it was the republicans' fault, even though the white house invented sequestration. now add to the list the secret service. this as the budget battle rages on. >> brian: elizabeth prann is in washington. hey, elizabeth. i know there was a lot of talk yesterday on capitol hill. lot of interaction. that's a good sign.

>> a lot of interaction, that budget battle goes on. the president is heading back to meet with senate republicans and house democrats. just one day after the house budget committee approved paul ryan's blueprint plan which would balance the budget in a decade. patty murray released a plan which would cut annual deficits, but leave the country with a $566 billion shortfall after ten years. this while that back and forth continues on another issue, the white house tours. who exactly is to blame? the president said during an interview, it wasn't up to him. and inconsistent response from that of its press secretary, jay carney. >> you know, i have to say, this was not a decision that went up to the white house, but what the secret service explained to us was that they're going to have to furlough some folks. >> we had to cancel the tours. it's our job to cancel the tours. they can not cancel them. so because this is not a tour of

the secret service building. it's a tour of the white house and the grounds. we run the tours. >> raising eyebrows is the president's comments during an interview where he said the u.s. debt, which is inching closer and closer to 17 trillion, is, quote, not an immediate crisis. republican senator sat down with greta van susteren last night with reaction. >> my view is it's -- i think he and many like him, many democrats on capitol hill, for that matter, don't think of this as a debt crisis because things haven't imploded yet. but that's going to happen. if we continue on the path that we're o it's not a question of if. it's a question of when. >> in 2008, then senator obama said that the rising debt was, in fact, unpatriotic. back to you. >> steve: we remember that. elizabeth, we thank you very much. so that was interesting in the sound bites where the president said, yeah, white house tours, pretty much the secret service's fault. and then you got jay carney saying, no, blame us. the white house. we're the ones who decided to

close it. ultimately they were talking about furloughs. nobody has been furloughed. so i don't get why they turned off the tours. >> alisyn: the president's point is that they had to choose between furloughing people in the secret service or canceling the white house tours. >> steve: but all the people are still on the job. all the secret service guys are still on the job. >> alisyn: because they canceled the tours. i'm giving you the president's math. they said they had to choose. >> brian: i will say this, if it wasn't for sequestration and the way it's blown up in the president's face, he would not be on capitol hill with this charm offensive which, by the way, still in play. lot of interaction yesterday. something could be heading there. senator mark warner came out yesterday and said social security and medicare are bankrupting the nation. he is a democrat. he's starting to sound as if he's coming out of his shell. >> alisyn: meanwhile, do you remember this story that we covered and so manier outraged by? when the gsa, a government

agency, paid for with taxpayer dollars, had a lavish conference for their staffers to the tune of $823,000, almost a million dollars in las vegas where they had $7,000 worth of sushi. they paid a mind reader $3,200. okay. so many people, we thought, lost their jobs as a result of that sort of spending. now it turns out that one of the people who we thought lost his job, 64-year-old paul proudy, he has been found now by a review board not to have engaged in misconduct. he has been reinstated. >> brian: yeah. not only that, he gets his back pay. he's one of 47 people that was suspended. he said even though he was in charge, he wasn't overseeing this. he never went to the conference. so let's give him back his money and give him back his high paying job. >> steve: yeah. the gsa said he must have known what was going on, but his attorney says look, essentially he's a victim of politics. he says the administration, which was deeply embarrassed by spending close to a million dollars on smoking clowns and

mind readers and $7,000 for sushi, they had to find some scapegoats. so they did that and they canned him. so he is back on the job and getting his money back. what's interesting, we showed you the picture of the guy in the hot tub. >> alisyn: he came to personify all of the lavish spending. >> steve: you know what? the gsa recommended firing him, but he was not fired. instead, he was allowed to retire with his government benefits. >> alisyn: he needed two strawberry daiquiris. >> brian: that's what he did when he was at work, what's he doing in retirement? you can't get any more relaxed than that! how would he know the difference? coming up straight ahead. >> alisyn: the fight to get tuition assistance back to our nation's heros. senator james imhoff making it his personal mission. >> steve: then taylor swift just kicked off her new tour and she's got a special treat for fans. a discount we're here! we're going to the park! [ gina ] oh hey, dan!

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>> brian: they put their lives on the line for this country. now our troops have become a victim of sequester big time. tuition assistance for the military members and the marines, army and air force have been terminated. they're not sending in new applications because of sequestration. senator james inhofe is offering a an amendment to fund tuition for our troops and joins us right now. senator, this is outrageous. we talked to a few guys already who have already seen some of their tuition requests denied. what are you doing about it? >> what we're doing about it is we have an amendment that we're going to put up. brian, i was a product of the draft many years ago. we have an all volunteer service now. these kids come in and they make a career decision. they put their name on the line. they go and work hard. but the motivation for many of them probably most of them, some

200,000 in the army, is that they can work a little bit harder and be able to get a college degree. and for them to pull that out from under them, let me just say -- people say, you got to make cuts somewhere. fine, let's cut the green agenda. if you take obama's green agenda out of the defense budget, we shouldn't be building biorefineries. that's more money than the entire cost of these tuition assistance. >> brian: the goal of sequestration was t maximum pain and it's true viewed by some that that would hurt republicans more than democrats if the defense industry was cut off at its knees. they want the flexibility to make these cuts and have the minimal amount of pain. what would this do for that in particular? >> well, addickcally hurt rehe -- radically hurt retention. we're up to close to 100%. all you have to do is sit down in afghanistan in a mess hall

and talk to these kids and they'll say, yeah. i'm on my way to getting a degree. that opens the door for upward mobility. they're pulling -- keep in mind now, brian, the important thing is they were told when they made that decision they would have this opportunity. >> brian: all right. so you're putting this forward today. what is it called and do you have any democratic support to pass? >> we have a lot of democrat support. we don't have a number yet 'cause we're getting the names before we have the number filed. it will be to reverse the cuts on education assistance for our troops. >> brian: so what democrats have said to you, hey, senator inhofe, i'm with you on this? >> well, hagin has come by. joe manchin. i should have brought my list with me. >> brian: but there are some? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. there are democrats and republicans. there are a lot of republicans who don't like it. they say north texas you got to cut all these things. well, yeah.

we can use discretion and cut those areas where we shouldn't be -- why do we have the defense budget paying for the green agenda in this administration and then gut these little kids? it's something that really bothers me when you sit and you're talking to them and they made a career decision and now we come along and say no, we changed our mind. you can't do that. >> brian: at least give the pentagon the freedom to cut to cause the least amount of damage with their own discretion, which right now it doesn't do. >> no. i have another amendment that does that. let's see how this plays out. i'm glad you care about this. i can assure you there are 400,000 troops who care that you care. >> brian: senator, thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: coming up, the tsa says sorry, we let the bombs pass security. it was just too hard to spot them. we're not kidding. that was their explanation. then moot the guy with the best memory in america. he's shuffling through these

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>> steve: time for news by the numbers. from the control room, first, 600,000. that's how many h & r block customers might have to wait six weeks or more for their tax refund. the irs says it had a filing error with form 8863, which must be filled out to qualify for the student tax credit. if you're trying to do that, be forewarned. next five. that's the number of 2013

model's nissan is recalling because of a faulty sensor that can permanently turn off the front seat passenger air bag. that's not good. get it fixed. finally, 50 bucks or less. that's the price of a ticket to see taylor swift in concert. the singer offering a fans a sweet deal. her new u.s. tour kicked off last night in omaha, nebraska. all right. ali? >> alisyn: as you know, we're so busy now i days that it's easy to forget names, dates and all sorts of things. but did you know there are some simple things you can do and foods that you can eat to boost your memory? our next guest trained himself to become the usa memory champion two years in a row. he's going to show us how. here in studio is nelson. how are you doing? >> how are you doing? >> brian: well. you were looking at a regular deck of cards and you were shuffling them and you memorized the order. >> yes.

>> alisyn: you claim. let's test your skill. >> all right. 66 spades. -- 6 of spades. 8 of hearts. >> alisyn: slow down. >> king of hearts. jack of spades. queen of spades. 5 of hearts. 2 of clubs. queen of hearts. 4 of diamonds. 7 of hearts. jack of diamonds. 5 of diamonds. >> alisyn: i cannot keep up with your memory. >> queen of diamonds, 5 of clubs. 7 of spades, jack of hearts, 8 of clubs. >> alisyn: i guess we get the point. so did you this. how long did it take to you memorize this deck? >> like a minute. >> alisyn: a minute? >> yeah. >> alisyn: can you tell us how we do that? >> so to do that particular thing t takes a bit of practice. there is techniques that anyone can learn. it's pretty simple. then the rest is practice. like you would go to the gym and get stronger, you can do the same with memory. >> alisyn: do you assign images? >> exactly.

each card means something to me other than -- like 6 of spades is actually the devil. the next card ace of clubs is an ex-girlfriend of mine. i make these crazy stories. >> alisyn: i heard of this, but i don't know how you remember the story. >> i know. it sounds like a lot of work, but it's easier for our brain. >> alisyn: one of the things is eat memory enhancing foods. >> i eat a specific way to try and help keep my mind sharp. >> alisyn: what sorts of things? >> i do a lot of blueberries and black berries, high in antioxidants which reduce oxidated stress in the balloon. the greener vegetables in beets. those are good for overall health. your body is good, your mind is good. one of my favorites is salmon. high in omega 3, an important fatty acid. >> alisyn: i heard people take a lot of fish oil. it cuts down in inflammation because inflammation in the brain is bad. can you take fish oil instead of eating the fish?

>> you can. that's probable will probably an easier way. you can have some of these products here. dha, tortillas, milk. i take this. this is algae instead of the actual fish oil. >> alisyn: and you are also a big advocate for trying to raise alzheimer's awareness. >> right. >> alisyn: and to somehow combat the disease. what are you doing on that front? >> sterretted a charity to raise awareness for the disease and i climb mountains around the world. i'm going to ever rest in two weeks. >> alisyn: you haven't tackled that yet? >> i got close once before. >> alisyn: do you think that if we all work on exercising our memory that we can combat alzheimer's? >> definitely. training your brain, eating right and trying to stay fit overall are the key components. >> alisyn: people can check out climbformemory.com to check out the charity. also you are the -- the

championship, you have a memory championship this weekend? >> on saturday. i'll try. >> alisyn: also, it's national pie day. sadly, i don't manhattan dessert. i mean the 3.14 formula. most people know 3.14. but you know all of pi? >> no. there is no all of pi. i learned -- i unusually know 15, 20, but i learned up to 100 for you guys. >> alisyn: yes. so we're going to lose that graphic and we would like to hear you recite pi. >> all right. 3.141592653589793238462643383279 502884169399375 8209749445923078 -- >> alisyn: can i stop threw? it's really hard for us to know this inn is this thank is

right -- if this is right. you had your eyes shut. so i think you were right. i'm going to read this and then you're going to keep going. can you keep it up from there? >> yes. most people know 3.14, you can add another digit. >> alisyn: nicely done. i'm going to ask to you pick it up in a second. meanwhile, it's supposed to be the best defense to fight off breast cancer. now radiation could cause another deadly problem, the warning that you need to hear about next. then forget the pencils and books. one sixth grader showed up at school with $20,000 and she started giving it all away. okay. go back to it. >> 16406286208998628034 -- >> alisyn: how do you know where you are. >> 82534211679. >> alisyn: good. very nice. you were just hitting the fourth line there.s.

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>> brian: joining us right now is the former ambassador to the vatican and former secretary of veteran affairs, under president bush, jim nicholson. so first off, he does not speak english. this is the first time in a long time. do you think he's going to have an affinity towards america? >> he will have and does have because he knows the importance of the american church, the united states church in support of the vatican overall and the humanitarian things that the vatican does around the world. the generous people of the united states and the united states government in some ways provides over 50% of what the vatican has to use to dispense its aid to humanity around the world. so he appreciates the united states. >> alisyn: and you were the u.s. ambassador to the vatican. were you surprised by this choice? >> i was. i met him and i knew a lot of the cardinals. frankly i didn't think they would pick a man that old, 76.

that says a lot about him, i think, because i think they, the conclave h a predilection to pick a younger man. so that, to me, speaks volumes about how much regard and respect they have for francis because he is 76 and they know what's required and feel he has all those prerequisites, including the motivation and energy and certainly has the proven leadership, evangelical zeal and the fidelity to the imagine steer yum of the church. those are sort ofbut his age wa. >> steve: that's why he wasn't anybody's front runner. they said apparently he was number two in the balloting last time when they selected benedict as the pope. but they figured, not the young guy that they need. but he is the guy, ambassador,

given his background and how he has been a cardinal of the people where he takes the bus, he cooks his own meals. he doesn't have a chauffeur or anything like that. he really is the guy the church needs today. he understands the challenges of modern life. >> he's a unique pick. there is no question about it. he's been through a lot of add versionity, both emergency room, health adversity, and governance adversity. his own order exiled him for being too orthodox at one point. he's been faced with a very grow ing authoritarian authority in argentina. he's confronted those things up close and he's passed the test. he stood up to them and he's prevailed because he knows what the church needs and that is needs a man of the people and men of the people and the people will go out and evangelize and reach out and be accessible and

convey the gospel of jesus, the love and the peace that is there for people who will embrace it. i think it's really a wonderful choice. >> steve: all right. jim nicholson, former u.s. ambassador to the vatican, thank you very much for joining us today. >> you bet. thank you. >> steve: and he just mentioned the health challenges of the new pope has faced. he only has one lung. >> alisyn: that's right. >> steve: went through a rough patch there for a while. >> alisyn: but he seems to have a lot of energy. >> steve: certainly does. meanwhile, we got news for you. this was not supposed to happen. an acrobat falls through a safety net in front of horrified audience. we're not going to show you the entire thing. we'll show awe little. you get idea. it's very disturbing. it happened in russia. the acrobat -- we're going to stop it there. the acrobat was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries, including a broken back when he within through the net. the spokesperson for the great moscow state circus says they've never had anything like this happen before and the safety net

had been rigorously tested before it failed. >> alisyn: here is a troubling new study about breast cancer. those treated with radiation are more likely to develop heart problems later. they examined the medical records from 1,000 breast cancer patients who developed heart disease after they were treated with radiation. doctors found that for each dose of radiation delivered, women had a 7.4% increased risk for heart disease. the findings in the "new england journal of medicine." >> brian: is that an ied in your pants? >> steve: what? >> brian: the tsa would not know. newark airport outmatched by an undercover fed who stuffed one in his pants and slipped past the two security checkpoints. they just thought he was happy to be going on a flight. >> steve: whoa. >> brian: even worse action their excuse, a member of the tsa blog team says it's just too darn hard for agents to find bombs. >> steve: you know what? for me now, tsa stands for to user security agency. >> brian: whatever works for you, steve. i'm so uncomfortable.

>> alisyn: am i inadvicible right now? i hope to. >> steve: she was the most popular girl in school until she got caught. a sixth grader in michigan brought $20,000 in cash to class and then handed it out! >> word got around and kids actually started coming to her asking for the money. she then started giving it away, as much as $500 to one student. a couple hundred dollars to other students. it was very, very unusual. something that we don't usually deal with. our students don't come to school with that much money, if any money at all. >> steve: yeah, generally not. meanwhile, the girl says a neighbor, another child, gave her the bag full of cash. cops are trying to figure out who it really belongs to and why it happened. >> alisyn: right. the bag full of $20,000 is unusual. let's go out to janis deans, see what she's cooking up out there. >> cooking? oh, my gosh! i wish i was cooking! i need a fire.

it is cold and you know what? here is our spring countdown. you ready for this? drum roll. those are my teeth chattering. six more days until spring arrives. it's coming! oh, my gosh, no one is advancing my map for me! joel, where are you indoors? i need to you advance my maps! there it is! six days until spring. someone please remind the calendar of that. let's take a look at the current temperatures. it certainly doesn't feel like spring out here. 25 in minneapolis. 23 in chicago. 31 in new york. 25 in cleveland. but in phoenix, 62. they're going to be in the 90s today. quick look at your satellite radar imagery. not too much to tell you about right there. we've got some snow showers across the upper midwest and the northeast and the northwest. happy pi day. i can recite pi as well. apple, strawberry, rhubarb, boston cream.

blueberry, peach. >> brian: what is pi? 3.14, right? >> that's not the pie i like. >> alisyn: impresssive. you put a lot of research into that. >> thank you. >> steve: go ahead and run into the building. >> i'm coming! >> steve: she's crazy. >> alisyn: coming up, welcome to regulation nation. you're probably breaking the law right now. >> steve: he is. >> alisyn: john stossel -- there should be a citation for what john stossel is doing. he's on a to explain how this is possible. >> brian: selena gomez and the stars reuniting? we're getting the scoop from her co-star who is here live. how do we mow? 'cause that's what our studio looks like i was cooking dinner for my family. boom. heart attack. the doctor recommends bayer aspirin to keep this from happening to me again. it's working.

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>> steve: time for quick headlines. the f.b.i. has put a new fugitive on their infamous ten most wanted list. according to reports, 28-year-old edwin ernesto rivera is an ms 13 gang member and wanted for the murder of a denver man. officials fear he may have fled the united states. and ever wanted a penguin? >> alisyn: of course. >> steve: who doesn't? how about one owned by legend wayne newton? one from vegas. an oregon wildlife center just bought 280 of his exotic animals, including the adorable penguins for more than about $27,000. they got the bargain price of $100 a critter because of the singer's bankruptcy. >> brian: where do you get these stories? >> steve: from the world of news, brian! >> alisyn: well, for years they wowed us with their powers on disney channel's hit series "the

wizards of waverly place." >> brian: now they're reunited for a special show where things take a turn after a spell is conjured up. >> steve: jake t austin is here. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> alisyn: great to have you. >> brian: you were on seven times a day in my house, it's good to see you on the couch. >> it's good to be with you in person now. >> brian: fantastic. so this special, what lured you into the script? n this was a great opportunity to get to work with the cast again. get work with the network and just to familiarize myself with the character and do something for the fans and bring more closure for the series. >> alisyn: had t had been a year and a half since you guys had worked together. how had everybody changed in that time? >> everyone has been branching out in their careers and really doing different things. i've been trying to grow as an actor, just trying to get more roles. o and fortunate enough to land another series. this is just about growing, like i said, with our careers and it's been great to keep in touch with the cast and see how

everyone has changed. >> steve: so you've got this new movie "the wizards rereturn." we've got a snippet. here are the wizards as the family prepares for a trip to, where else, italy. >> no time for that travel confusion. show me the door to our italian room. okay, i'm going to go with mama mia. i think that's italian. >> a tour to japan? how cool! [ laughter ] >> it's italy. >> steve: congratulations. so you started out there on what really is a hollywood sound stage and then wound up at the olive garden. >> common trade. >> steve: fantastic. >> alisyn: i read, your show was the most popular on the network

from two-year-olds through 14-year-olds. why do you think it had that sort of range? >> i was not aware of that. that's wide spectrum. the appeal of the show is it suchs on drama and the great thing about special is it's almost like a movie. it dives into an action and it's a very fast paced. it's something different from the show. >> brian: i understand selena is the executive producer? >> right. >> brian: so is she your boss? >> i would say on paper, yeah. >> steve: you guys all started out at the same level and now there she is, she's cutting your checks. >> she is. it's been a gradual change. >> steve: all right. >> brian: let me ask you something, it seems to me in a series like this, it is almost like a high school class. do you feel like that, like you're visiting with your high school. >> it was reminiscent on fun memories, and building everything i've learned on the show and hopefully being able to

use it on more sets. i think it's something i'll always take with me. >> brian: it's too bad you can't take the magic because it leaves when the show is over. >> i think part of the magic is the mystery. >> steve: yeah. >> alisyn: i'm sure why kids love it. great to meet you. good luck. >> steve: it runs tomorrow night on disney channel. >> at 8:00 o'clock. >> steve: we'll be tube side. next up, john stossel will show us how easy it is to break 13 laws in 30 seconds. welcome to regulation nation. >> alisyn: first on this date in 1978, "night fever" by the bee gees was the number one song. i'm sure brian danced to that. >> brian: it's never not been number one with me, ali [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo.

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>> steve: regulation nation. you want to know how easy it is to break the law? take a look at this. you can break a lot. ♪ ♪ . >> steve: so easy. our next guest agrees, arguing even simple things like setting up a lemonade stand could land new a new york city jail. joining us, a guy who tried just that, he is not currently in the pocky. john stossel. good morning to you. >> we have too many rules.

yet outside the studio, i tried setting up a lemonade stand. we have a clip of that. >> steve: we do. >> wait a second! i shouldn't have sold it to you. i have to get it back. my customers thought this was crazy. many had once had their own lemonade stand. do you have to get a license to open the stand? >> i'm from from canada. we did need one. >> wait, wait. i can't let you drink this. >> why? >> there are so many rules here, i'm not allowed to sell this to you. i have to give you your money back. >> steve: how were you breaking the law? you didn't have a permit? >> right. it would have taken two months to get the permit. >> steve: for a lemonade stand? >> for a lemonade stand. like you ran the clip from buzz feed. some of those laws are reasonable. excessive noise, public urination. >> steve: but stealing a wi-fi signal? come on. brian is over there -- brian is stealing the signal from starbucks right now, aren't you? >> brian: i'm order ago double latte. >> by making fun of the stupid

laws, it leaves out the point that there are 300,000 laws with criminal penalties. there are so many laws that almost everybody breaks them. and that's dangerous. it stops innovation. >> steve: here in new york city, it is illegal for restaurants to serve transfats and too much salt and almost more than 16 ounces of new coke. >> two of those haven't happened yet. they've been proposed. >> steve: that's right. a judge said that's a dumb idea. what would you like to see done regarding all these -- >> politicians instead of bragging about the laws they pass to brag about the laws they repeal and had you they make life simpler. 'cause life goes forward if we have clear and understandable rules. when we have a million rules, nobody knows what they are. >> steve: that's right. illegal everything is the name of your special tonight in prime time, right? >> that is true. on fox business. >> steve: nothing illegal about watching it or watching this program.

>> but it should be illegal. >> steve: stop it. all right. thank you very much. good luck on that lemonade stand in the future. what about garage sale? do you need a permit for that in new york? >> i'll check it out. probably. >> steve: wouldn't doubt it. thank you, sir. meanwhile, straight ahead, the white house is closed to tours and the president just threw the secret service under the bus. he says it's their fault. michelle mal on that. -- malkin. then jeff gordon takes a car salesman for the ride of his life and nearly gets punched in the face! it's a prank that you got to see, straight ahead what's droid-smart ? with google now, it automatically knows when you need to leave for the airport, how much traffic there is, and can have your boarding pass ready.

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for morning prayers. so what made him the chosen one? we are live at the vatican. >> steve: meanwhile, the white house throwing the secret service under the bus, saying they, the secret service, are the ones who closed the people's house. >> i have to say this was not a decision that went up to the white house, but what the secret service explained to us was that they're going to have to furlough some folks. >> steve: but they haven't. and if they're so broke, why is the white house now offering a internships? high paid internships. hmmm. michelle malkin reacts to that and much more. >> brian: the nation's top spy agencies are taking -- we're taking every check you write, they know about it and sometimes cover you if you're a little short. i made that last part up. "fox & friends" starts right now

>> brian: maybe this will be the time we see the white smoke and we'll have a new pope. >> alisyn: we saw it yesterday. >> brian: fantastic. let's find out more. >> steve: yesterday during our program, we had the black smoke. yesterday afternoon, we had the white smoke. we have images of pope francis stepping out leaving the vatican for the first time. >> brian: did he sleep at all last night? >> alisyn: i doubt it. >> steve: how could you? he started his morning praying at rome's main basilica. so what else is he up to today? father jonathan morris joins us live from rome. father jonathan, we watched on the fox news channel yesterday as the pope came out and greeted everybody and bowed down and asked for everybody's prayer. the early reviews are in and people love this guy. >> first of all, isn't it great how brian finds out the news of a new pope the next morning?

anyway, it's great that it's like a child, the innocent. but i'm glad you brought up the point of him bowing down. what he did was before giving the blessing to the people, the more than 100,000 people who were there in the square waiting for him for hours, he bent down and he asked the people to pray over him! that, of course, is very much in line with the name that he chose, francis, after saint francis of assisi, known as an extremely humble man, even though he came from a very wealthy family. they put away all the wealth. he stripped down and put on a very simple francis can outfit. not just management 101, get rid of things in the curia by managerial style burks to do it in a way that's based on humility, the real christianity that he once proposed. >> alisyn: father, i want to read a tweet that you sent out yesterday before the pope's identity was revealed.

keep one eye on cardinal jorge bergoglio as a compromise candidate. very good jesuit. they say that only god knew who the next pope was. how did you have the line on that? >> well, sometimes even fools get lucky. but the reason why i thought that could be a possibility, i put that out about nine hours before he was elected was because there were three major names that were floating. scola and then you had sharer from brazil and the one from canada. when i saw they hadn't chosen one of those three in the first three votes, i said most likely they're going for somebody else. and i know cardinal bergoglio as a man who is very simple, but also very tough. and outsiders going to come in and be able to fix some of the dysfunction and the mismanagement in the vatican and also to do it with real humility.

>> steve: one of the things i loved about yesterday when he came out on the logia and made the comments after he had made some -- some words, he asked everybody to pray with him and they did the our father and they did the hail mary, which even little catholic kids know that. so the entire planet was united in prayer at that moment. going forward, what do you expect from this particular pontiff? >> well, he broke out this morning, he went on an unofficial visit without any fanfare, without any of the police escorts, went to saint mary major basilica, major basilica in rome and spent a half hour in silent prayer before the altar on his knees. what he's doing is saying, you know, any of that clerical careerism, holier than thou stuff, that's the stuff that gets the church in trouble because just like in saint francis' day, there needed to be reform that starts with the heart. that's a type of pope i think he's going to be.

he speaks italian and german fluently, english, and of course, speaks his argentinian, that not all spanish speakers would call spanish. but certainly he's a man of the people. >> brian: father jonathan, i can understand being dissed by jon stewart, but dissed by father jonathan at this hour, it's really -- >> i don't feel bad. >> brian: you don't feel bad? >> not at all. no contrition. >> brian: no act of contrition for the father. >> steve: thanks. thanks so much. >> alisyn: great to see you. >> brian: i pardon the man. >> alisyn: we have another fox news alert right now. scene of a massive fire in coal city, illinois. it's burning at a large industrial building. there is no word on whether there are any injuries or how this fire started. firefighters say they're not even trying to fight the flames at this hour. they're just trying to let it burn itself out. it's so big. now to another developing

story. day two of this tense police stand-off in the town of perkomer, new york. this morningness loud bangs were heard near an abandoned building and inside, reportedly an armed man accused of going on a deadly shooting spree. it's believed the 64-year-old man set fire to his apartment in mohawk, then drove to two businesses and shot four people dead. >> it's scary. this is a small town. this stuff shouldn't happen around here. >> he's basically turned the whole valley area into a ghost town. people aren't out like they usually are. >> alisyn: police are not commenting on a motive and saying they are, quote, familiar with him. spy organizations may be able to look at your information to fight controversial the obama administration plans to keep national datas on everyone who banks in the u.s. it will be used to, quote, find

suspicious activity. they say it's a huge violation of our rights. >> every check you've ever cashed, every deposit you've ever made, to see if they can make any connection between the innocent normal commercial activity of hundreds of millions of americans, and the evil deeds of a few. >> alisyn: the plan is reportedly still in the early stages and no word on when it will be implemented. despite the president's promise of tough across the board spending cuts because of the sequester, federal interns are still raking in the dough. the federal jobs employment web site showing a long list of internships that pay from 30 and 80,000 bucks? that's a good internship. >> steve: no kidding. >> alisyn: all you need to do, be at least 16 years old, be enrolled part-time in college and have a grade point average of 2.9. where do we apply? >> steve: washington, d.c., land of the open checkbook. always gives us plenty to talk about. we're going to do that now with michelle malkin.

she joinses from colorado. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> steve: yesterday the president went up to the hill, talked to the house republicans. today he's going to go to the senate. it's all part of the charm offensive, which i know that you know that this is just a scheme. it's part of his optics -- >> brian: no, no, no. >> steve: these two believe that there really is some bipartisanship going on on the part of the white house. >> alisyn: we believe it could work. even if it's optics, it could work. >> yeah, i share steve's jaundiced eye and ear on this. i think charm offensive actually requires charm. this is more of a smarm offensive. >> steve: whoa. >> giving the pose of bipartisan conciliation for the cameras when behind the scenes, by all accounts, this was a very tense meeting and an opportunity for obama to once again chastise and wave his pointy finger at republicans as he took offense

at the very true assessment that, of course, over the last years of his tenure and into this new administration, that all it is is about gaining political advantage at the expense of republicans who are constantly spanked publicly by this president. >> steve: i'm with you. >> alisyn: okay. >> okay then. >> brian: paul ryan was quoted as saying he felt the president helped himself in that meeting yesterday. >> yeah. well, you know what? whatever happened to transparency? and doing things in a different way in washington? if this is supposed to be all for the public interest, why don't we have these meetings in public broadcast on fox news perhaps? >> steve: sure. >> so we could see exactly what's being said and what's being promised and i'd love to see the republicans' faces as he's precontinueding to extend the olive branch to them. why don't we have it publicly?

>> alisyn: there you go. also, the white house may be changing course on whether or not to allow school groups inside the white house on tours. this came out during an interview with george stephanopoulos in which the president said, you know what? the secret service basically gave us a choice, furlough people and have them lose some of their paychecks, or stop these tours and so, you know, it was up to the secret service. but we had to stop the tours. here is jay carney trying to explain that logic. >> the secret service told us that the tours cost $74,000 a week. how much is it going to cost the president to travel later this week to illinois? >> the president is president of the united states. he's elected to represent all of the people and he travels around the country appropriately. i don't have a figure on the cost of presidential travel. it is obviously something as every president deals with because of security and staff, a significant undertaking. but the president has to travel around the country.

he has to travel around the world that. is part of his job. >> how much does it cost for him to go and play golf? >> john, again, you're trivializing an impact. people will lose their jobs. three carts of a million people will lose their jobs. >> steve: he's asking a good question. >> brian: two of them. >> steve: how much did does it cost? >> yeah. and he didn't answer, of course. let's back up a little bit 'cause i just want to savor this moment of the commander in chief throwing his own secret service, the people who are willing to take a bullet for the man, under the bus and pointing the finger at them for the decision to shut down the white house tours when it was jay carney himself in that same press briefing who acknowledged that it was the white house that made the decision. so this sort of underscores what i'm saying about this charm offensive. okay? because if he was really intent, this president, on having a bipartisan pose and changing the way business is done in

washington, he would be swallowing each and every one of his lies about the panic and yet, he continues to not only indulge in these lies that are contradicted by his own white house press secretary, but in indulging in all of the gop bashing when it's their decision! this is disgusting. >> steve: i tell you what, it looks like the main stream media, at least certain members of it, are starting to ask hard questions after four-plus years. and that is, government has to be accountable. it's great jonathan carl asked two good questions yesterday. michelle, always a pleasure. you ask good questions and you've got great answers and we thank you very much for joining us live today. >> you bet. take care. >> alisyn: you buying a house? before you sign on the dotted line, check the fine print. turns out there are plenty of rules that give your lender the upper hand. real estate guru bob massi is answering all of your questions coming up. >> brian: jeff gordon takes a car salesman for the ride of his life. the prank you got to see to

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>> alisyn: the first jesuit and the first latin american pope. what can we expect from him? we go to peter johnson, jr. >> good morning. how are you? i brought in a great expert and a dear friend to answer that. joining me now, joe lewis, the rome bureau chief from ewtn, the eternal world television network. good morning. so good to be with you. >> hey, peter. it's great to be with you in the eternal city. >> absolutely. we met last year at the same basilica that pope francis went to this morning. why did he go to the basilica of saint mary major and what does

that say about his papacy going forward? >> it says that his papacy, like the people before him, like the two before him will be dedicated to mary. he announced last night that he was going to visit mary, going to pray to mary, the first thing is the first business of the day. so that's pretty nice if he has put his pontificate and his person in the hands of our blessed mother. >> joan, he seems to be an extraordinarily unique person, a person who eschews limousines for simple apartments. he seems to be a person who washed the feet of aids victims, but at the same time, he is viewed to the conservative principles and dogma of the church. do you believe that he will be a pope who will embrace symbolic events in a way that will bring the americas, europe, asia, and the universal catholic church

together and how will he do that ? >> i think beginning last night, see him as a genuine, loving, caring, humble person. i think they're going to be able to relate to him in a very real way. yes, he'll live in the apostolic palace. probably not luxurious at all. he will go on papal trips and try and be with the people, with the poor. he's a man of the poor. that was the first thing i heard last night from several people who know him well. and i've also discovered he was very active in a community for drug addicts. it was founded in northern italy. he visited the community outside of buenos aires quite a number of times. it's an amazingly successful story for addicts, especially drug addicts. i think we're going to see a lot of him. >> have you met him at all, joan, in the past, or know anything about him personally in

terms of where he goes in rome and what he does? >> no, i don't. when i got on our own network last night, i said, i had 15 stories, different cardinals whom i have known or had working relationship with. i said, he was not one of those 15. he really was an unknown. there was a hush over the square when they said we have a pope and they said his name. and there was no reaction until they said he was taking the name of francis. then the crowd reacted. that's going to be a loft italian saint francis and assisi had to be a joyful place last night, too. >> as a final question as we go out, you're not only one of the most respected experts on the vatican, i know that you're a devout catholic and you attend the santa susanna parish in rome. as a catholic, what did it mean to you when pope francis let

that crowd of 100,000 people in the our father and the hail mary? it almost brought tears to my eyes last night. how did you feel and what does that say about him asking for the prayers of the world? >> oh, peter, i was moved beyond telling. first of all, when he came out and said a simple greeting of good evening. and then he asked, he said, before i bless you, will you people bless and pray for me. >> i think the world will, joan. you understand we're going to black soon. we're back to ali, joan lewis. thank you. god bless you. >> you're welcome. >> alisyn: great insight. she's wonderful. >> great woman. great reporter. >> alisyn: thinking about buying a house? you better read the fine print or you could get a raw deal. a warning for everyone when bob massi digs into his mail bag next. and who could forget this guy's lavish hot tub party on your

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>> brian: fox news alert now. police shot and killed a gunman in upstate new york. curt myers has been holed up in an abandoned building. he shot and killed a k-9 dog. it's believed he set fire to his apartment in the town of mohawk and drove to two businesses and shot four people dead. steve? >> steve: thank you, brian. buying a new house could often mean massive amounts of paperwork. what do you need to know before you sign your life away? fox news legal analyst and real estate expert bob massi is here

with some important answers to some important questions. bob, i've closed on a couple of houses in my lifetime and it's about 1,000 pages. and nobody ever reads that stuff. they just -- you turn to the person and you say, i should sign this, right? they say, yeah, you can read it if you want to, but nobody does. >> that's why they count on it. they count on the fact that you're not going to read it because you're excited about buying a house. so today there's a few things i want our viewers to learn and understand so when they do sign it, these are the consequences of it. >> steve: for instance, in the fine print, is contained the answer to this. somebody wants to know -- in fact, i want to know this. why can a lender or representative of a lender, your mortgage holder, change the locks on your house, repair, lay liens, board the house, et cetera? >> because in the papers we sign, in the mortgage papers, there is provision that says if you vacate a home, if you abandon your home, the lender, steve, has a security interest in that home. so they have the right to

protect that collateral based on the money they advanced. they could change the locks, which a lot of our e-mails we get over the last couple of years say that's happened. they can repair the home. they can board the home. they could do literally anything they want because the person who they advanced the money to has abandoned it and no longer lives there. they have the right to do that. >> steve: i got you. i know a situation where a lot of families, a parent might go ahead and sign a house over to a child or a child to a parent or something like that. >> yes. >> steve: while there is stale mortgage on that. so that lends this question: why can a lender call a note due because of a transfer of interest to a third party? >> it's what we call a do on sell. a do on sell means this, it doesn't mean its to to be sold. generally spook, any transfer to a third party, steve, that has not been approved for that underlying loan that you got, that bob got from the lender and you transfer it to any third

party and that lender finds out, they could call that note due. why? because that transferee, the person that got that was never approved for the underlying mortgage. and therefore, they have the right to call the entire note due. >> steve: now, here is a final question for you. this is a good reason why people should actually read the paperwork they're signing. it could have what's called an acceleration clause in it. what is that and what does it do? >> most promissory notes we sign when we get a mortgage basically says if, in fact, you default on the payment of that note, they can accelerate the whole balance due and owing. a lot of times in this foreclosure mode, steve, people will get a letter, a demand acceleration letter saying, dear mr. massey, you are in default of your note. you have not paid. if you don't bring it current, we will accelerate that note where the entire amount is due and owing. these provisions we're talking about today, steve, are almost

in every single document that no matter what state you're in, these provisions are generally there and that's why we need our viewers to understand this. they need to be explained more to the consumer. >> steve: absolutely. if somebody is closing on a mortgage soon, just ask the person who has got the pen. is there an acceleration clause in there? >> absolutely. >> steve: good advice. by the way, folks out there in tv land, if you have housing questions you need answered, e-mail bob. mr. massi, thank you very much. so long from vegas. coming up, he's performed for two popes and now preparing for his third. irish tenor ronan tynan is here on -- almost to saint patty's day with his thoughts on the new holy father. and nicole petallides is live at the new york stock exchange awaiting new weekly jobless numbers. good morning. >> good morning. we're going to get in our weekly jobless claims. you have the market sitting here

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>> brian: new video of pope francis stepping out for the very first time as the new pontiff. he started his morning prayer at rome's main basilica. later today he'll celebrate mass in the sistine chapel. look up. it's a nice ceiling, with the cardinals who elected him. we just learned pope francis will not be meeting with his predecessor as planned.

but will wait for another day. >> steve: meanwhile, irish tenor ronan tynan has performed for two popes in the past. he joins us to share his memories and to reveal what the naming of the new pope means to him. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, hi. >> alisyn: good to see you. >> steve: john paul ii you met when you were 20? >> 20, 21. i met him in rome. i was asked to sing for him. >> steve: there you are. >> yeah. there i am. actually it was just very soon after i had actually lost both my limbs and then i went there. it was around my 24th birthday. >> steve: then in 2008, pope benedict came to new york city. >> that's right. >> steve: and he was at yankee stadium and you performed for him there. >> i did. >> alisyn: is that added pressure singing for the pope? >> yeah. i think it has a little bit of pressure to it. i think you have to understand the kind of enormity of the situation. then kind of keep the heart kind

of settled. >> brian: did the yanks end up winning? >> not that game. they didn't play that day, brian. >> brian: i'm kidding. >> you're irish. but half italian. i'm not sure. >> brian: here it is. you're singing for the pope. what's more exciting, doing it or getting the word that the pope wants to see you? >> i think when you get the word that you've been selected, i think that's a big deal. i mean, i equate it the same way i was asked to sing at president reagan's funeral. it's a huge honor. then you get very nervous because you really want to do the job as best you can. >> alisyn: what is your thoughts on pope francis? >> i love the fact he took the name francis because, you know, if you're not too familiar with this, this saint francis of assisi, this is a man that he went into a church and the crucifix allegedly talked to him and said, rebuild my church. so this man has taken that name,

which i think is a point in the whole process because i think the catholic church is going to go through a rebuild. >> brian: what does it mean to the people of ireland? >> well, what i think is interesting, first of all, he's the first noneuropean. and he's south american, which is a huge point in fact. and i think that's a good thing because i think when the -- the first thing everybody knows is he's a humble man. he asked for a moment of silence so we could pray for him, which i think is, again, a huge deal. that's how i would look at him. >> steve: a breath of fresh air for the church and it's exciting that we have a new holy father. also exciting, ronan will be performing a song a little later on in today's program. as get ready for it. >> alisyn: look forward to it.

>> brian: almost as nerve racking. >> steve: now a fox news business alert. brand-new weekly jobless numbers just leased. nicole petallides from the "fox business" network is live with the number. nicole? >> they're looking better than expected. so this is obviously some good news for america. talking about the fact that the actual weekly jobless claim came in at 332,000. that was better than the estimate of 350,000. just shows that the labor market is strengthening and improving as we have seen over time. obviously some would like it to do a lot faster. but it's going in the right direction. >> steve: how about the fact, were you paying attention to the president of the united states in his interview yesterday with abc news where he said, we don't really have a debt crisis in this country, which kind of flies in the face of that great big number we're racking up. >> it's pretty unbelievable when he comes out and says it so blatantly like that. it doesn't seem to be worried about a crisis at all. he's not worried about balancing the budget at this current time. in the meantime, our national

debt is $16.7 trillion. he spent more in his current administration, more than any other administration had. all together, up 'til president clinton. so obviously the spending continues and worrying about the balanced budget right now is not the main focus at this time. got to tell you, our markets, we've been up and we had seven consecutive record closes for the dow jones industrial. you remember 2009 when we were at 6500. we're up 120%. so certainly had a nice run for the stock market and some names i'll be watching today will include black berry. they got an order for 1 million blackberry 10s. that's a good one. and twitter and apple because we have news on twitter. they plan mobile music app using sound cloud. that will be another piece of news to watch. >> steve: and the market, of course, opens 52 minutes from right now. we thank you very much for the very latest. >> alisyn: thank you. >> brian: someone else has a blackberry besides us. >> steve: apparently they're

fancy. >> alisyn: take that, all you who make fun of my blackberry. we have a lot to tell you about. the gsa spent more than $800,000 of your tax dollars, you'll remember, on a lavish conference. now one of the top guys will be back on the job. a merit board, review board ordered the senior executive must get his job back and get 11 months back pay. they claim he's not guilty of misconduct because he did not attend the conference and he says he didn't really help plan it. you may remember tax dollars were spent on a list of fun-filled things, like mind reader and $7,000 worth of sushi. >> steve: delicious. meanwhile, victoria secret model in a neck brace following a car crash earlier this week. she was driving on an l.a. freeway when somebody hit her. her rep says she's in a lot of pain, but she is going to be okay. there she is pictured in happier times. >> brian: is this real or not? the latest reality ad starring a disguised nascar viral -- video

going viral. heading down to a car dealership. unknowing salesman thinks this would be an average test drive. turns out he's very wrong. >> oh, yeah. what a car. >> we better buckle up. >> stop the car! >> stop the car right now! >> oh, my god! >> brian: the unsuspecting salesperson has no idea this is a prank for a commercial. >> alisyn: that's cruel. >> brian: back at the dealership, the man threatens to call cops before gordon reveals himself. the video has gotten over 5 million views on youtube. >> steve: somebody did e-mail me a story that said that the passenger, the car dealer apparently was an actor and apparently it wasn't really jeff gordon driving the car in that, but it was a driver for richard

petty driving experience did the stunt work. >> alisyn: what part of that was real? >> steve: it's a commercial. it's a real commercial. >> alisyn: is it? >> steve: i think so. >> alisyn: we have to find out about that. >> brian: i don't know what to believe anymore. >> alisyn: what can you trust? what's the best way to dig america out of its money troubles? the president says his new cuts and new taxes. what do the middle eastern people think? pollster frank luntz is here with that answer next look what mommy is having.

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>> brian: what's the best way to reduce america's huge deficit? a recent poll by the rasmussen people show 45% believe it's by cutting spending. that's not the president's plan and america seems to still be standing by him.

what is the explanation, frank luntz? >> the explanation is that he's got the most amazing ability to capture the public mood with the rhetoric he uses. brian, you're going to argue with me that it doesn't match the policies and you're right. but we've been testing the president for the last 4 1/2 years and he truly is on message. the words that he uses influences the american people, so they end up blaming congress rather than him for the economic mess that we're in. >> brian: let's go to the dials and we'll get your feedback on it. here is the president on the balanced approach. >> we all agree that it's critical to cut unnecessary spending, but we just can't cut our way to prosperity. it hasn't worked in the past. it won't work today. it could slow down our recovery. it could weaken our economy. it could cost us jobs. not just now, but in the future. what we need instead is a balanced approach, an approach that says, let's cut what we

can, but let's make the investments we can't afford to live without. investments in education and infrastructure, research, and development. the things that will help america compete for the best jobs and new industries. already republicans and democrats have worked together to reduce our deficits by $2.5 trillion. that's a good start. but to get the rest of the way, we need a balanced set of reforms. >> brian: what did you learn from that? >> i learned that the word balanced is pretty good. but i'll give you four words that are even better than balanced. accountability, responsibility, efficiency, and effectiveness. that the president talks about balance, but he doesn't actually produce it. what the american people want more than balance is a government that holds itself accountable, a government that promotes personal responsibility, a government that spends efficiently so hard working taxpayers can keep more of their money, and effectively so what they promise they actually deliver.

>> brian: what i don't get is since when weather are we in a country that likes to raise taxes? why are we debating raising taxes or not? are we determined to give away more of our own money? >> what he's trying to do is say that only 1% of americans are going to pay more. here is the secret and everyone knows it. thanks to the payroll tax going up, every hard working taxpayer is paying 2% more to washington. it's a simple question. are you getting the money you pay into the system? is washington delivering you value for your money? if the republicans ask those questions, they're going to like the answers they hear. >> brian: perhaps. now you have a president that said the deficit is not a problem. do the american people believe it's a problem? >> they believe it's a problem. they believe the debility is a crisis. they see how it will impact them. sometimes i wonder that when the president is off the cuff rather than being scripted, i don't think that he really connects with the american people. one more point, brian, and i want to -- people should focus on this. the president uses the word but. he'll say one side of the

argument, but, and then he'll focus on the other side. americans need to start listening to that but. every time they hear it, they know what he just said not what he really believes. >> brian: yeah. it's the low information voter is the one that's the hardest to get to, to focus like that. i think that's who the president is focusing on. we'll see if this charm offensive will be effective. frank luntz, thanks so much. >> brian, always a pleasure. >> brian: 13 minutes before the top of the hour. he sings for presidents. he sings for popes. he is one of the most amazing voices you ever heard. irish tenor ronan tynan performs next. he told me it will be his career highlight. just like the thrill i get every day as i check in with bill hemmer to find out what's on his show. >> he's got an audience of one of the he was telling me about a week ago how much he was looking forward to singing for you. >> brian: really? >> don't screw it up. >> brian: i promise not to. all i have to do is watch. >> you do, and be quiet. good morning to you, though. a big day at the vatican. i mean, when the new pope will visit the former pope, when will

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>> alisyn: look at that graphic. >> steve: today we're celebrating st. patrick's day, which is this weekend with a true irishman, ronan tynan is here to share with us what st. patrick's day means to him.

now, here in new york city -- there is your brand-new album. >> brian: you can get this now, right? >> yes. you can get it on the web, www.ronantine be.net. >> brian: my mom has a big st. patrick's day party. can you come over and sing or is it too late? are you booked? >> it's never too late. come down to naples. afterwards, i'll do the celebrating. >> steve: here is the disconnect. st. patrick's day appears to be bigger in new york city than it is in ireland. >> you know, i believe you're right there, steve. the tradition in america is powerful because of over 40 million irish americans over here. they like to carry tradition. like the italian. >> brian: i'm half italian and half irish. my irish are more in st. patrick's day. >> it's the more intellectual day. >> steve: what are you going to do for us? >> i'm going to sing written by

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